Omg, I have an old D70 and that stickiness you're talking about was awful. I managed to get it off eventually with a bottle of left over hand gel, but at first the cloth or paper I was rubbing it off with was just sticking to the camera body making it even look worse. Good to hear it never returned though.

The D70 came out with the 18-70/3.5-4.5 as "kitlens" into 2004. Into 2005, Nikon introduced the subtle (AF & display, now 2" vs 1.8" size) enhanced D70s. 2006 was the year, the D40 was being released. I still shoot with my D70s occasionally, as well as all my other DX Nikons, up to the D7000, and FX D700. I do own the D100, D70s, D40, D60, D80, D90, D700 & D7000. 70 to 99% pure alcohol does just make those Nikon (D)SLR bodies look dull & matte. The ordinary D70 could being updated to D70s level (minus the 0.2" bigger display) via Firmware Update 2.00 since ever then it was being released, so with 2.0, technically both D70(s) are the same, the 70s only features a very subtle bigger (still way small) display. I used a black face mask and hand sanatizer to clean the stickyness of my D70s, as well as all other (mostly F80, F100, F90x) bodies to get rid of the vaporized adheasive, which caused the stickyness out of the faux rubber layer. A real drawback from the D70(s) is the extraordinary small OVF, it's a dim-lit small pentamirror OVF, if you're wearing glasses, one is not getting happy with that small OVF. The one year later released D40 does even have a bit bigger OVF, still a pentamirror, the D40 does have other issues, only 1/4000s shutter, no BiM, and 3 AF points. The successor of the D70(s) was the D80, with bigger, all glass pentaprism OVF, 11 AF Points, 10 MP. Info: The D70(s) doesn't have WR, weathersealing, that's a false comment into this video, David. Same goes for the other DX bodies under D7000 level, the D7000 does have some (way basic) weathersealing, but not onto D200/D300(s) level.

I'd like to add, that the D70 came out into 2004, the subtle enhanced D70s into 2005, not 2006. Furtherway, the original D70 could being upgraded with FW 2.0 to the D70s level - same features, but D70 does have a 1.8" LCD, whileas the D70s does have a 2" display, so negledible difference only. D70s does have FW 1.00, and there was never a FW update being released. I do shoot with Nikon digital since 2002 (D100). Film - F90 (1992).

@@marcp.1752 - You can restore the shine of the D70s by using Armor-All wipes. My D70s was very dull after removing the stickiness with 92% alcohol so I used the Armor-All wipes. After wiping the body down with 5 or 6 wipes, the luster returned.

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I lost my D3200 and i bought D70S cuz its cheap. Now i like it more than D3200. Just remember to bring a dedicated flash cuz basically the lowlight performance is non existent lol

a picture is created about 20cm behind sensor

I am sorry to hear about your ur friend who got their camera gear stolen… that’s a really bad experience… Yeah, the D70 was almost a thousand dollars when it was realised (give a take). I’ve also done a video and a budget camera challenge with the D70 a month (ish) ago… 😅😂 They both produce nice results, sure, not up to modern standards technically speaking but still produce great and unique results when use properly. ☺️☺️ My new intro isn’t too different from the current one, just new clips, fonts and effects. But the same beats, soundtrack and duration. 😅☺️☺️ Thank you so much for continuing to watch my videos, I wish you a great time, stay safe and have fun shooting! ☺️☺️

Congratulations on getting the camera, I’m sure you’ll produce great results with it. ☺️ I am also glad to hear that you found my video helpful. I thank you so much for watching as well as for the kind comment. I wish you a great time, stay safe and have fun shooting! ☺️☺️📸

All the vintage Nikon's have a unique charm to their photos. Especially the CCD sensors

Agreed, the card corruption annoyed a lot maybe because the same problem occur on another CF cards?

@@herman6539 it happens with every card. There is a defect in this model. The issue has been related multiple times on the internet

So did I. Put on a manual flash and it works at 1/8000s shutter speed, although my Yongnuo 560 flash starts to get darker compared to the background beyond 1/4000. D40 can do the same thing. D70, 70s and D40 all have a global shutter, just like the latest £6000 Sony.

Dont have the camera in front of me so forgive me if this is not the right term but in what colour mode do you have it set?

💯 I'm building a Nikon display cabinet. Besides having a beautiful aesthetic appeal. They are all functional and take great pictures. I take them out randomly and continue to be wow'ed by their performance.

Is this true? I got no knowledge about Cameras, but would love to get one. for as cheap as possible, so i can learn and have a camera instead of the phone. So my 1 year old dont get fixated by the phone. What would u say is a camera that just takes better pictures then most of the phones nowdays, but still cheap? If there is one in ur list u mentioned id like to know witch of those u prefer

Yeah especially in this era almost all phone has fake shallow effect. Its so robotic, feels so fake. Just buy d70 and slap older AF 50mm 1.8D and yer gold